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This week we unpack both textual/historical and philosophical or ideological questions in order to understand a conversation which explores, defines, and highlights the possibly porous boundaries of the Jewish community around converts.
All this and more in this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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We delve deeper into the thorny issue of who can give what to whom and who can accept what from whom? Who has the authority to be an owner or to convey ownership? Also how do we deal with the thorny issue of family money? Can one person go solo buying and selling? Then what?
All this and more in this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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Last daf podcast of the year! What is the status and legality of commercial relationships between romantic partners? That is the central question that this week's daf struggles with.
Come and find respite in the bet midrash in the closet!

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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Property. Husbands. Wives. Enslaved people. The way these interact and intersect can drive you crazy and yet this too is Torah. All in this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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We finish one conversation about contract and coercion, and we start another one about property and coercion and marriage. All in this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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If a coerced contract is enforceable, how do we think about contracting in general? Are all forced contracts enforceable? What about marriage contracts? Divorce contracts? What does contracting mean at the end of all this? These are questions that raised by this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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If at its heart commerce is about communication, how do we effect commercial transactions when we cannot trust each other? This is one of the questions that is raised by this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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What do you do when you forgot your pie pan at the potluck and somebody else takes it home? Is somebody responsible? Also tenant farmers. And dishing on Pumbeditha.
In this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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Selling stuff. Buying stuff. Lying? Fraud? Jews and nonJews. Its all here in this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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So many questions. What responsibility does a seller have to the buyer of her property? How does one work through the web of ownership in the case of a stolen piece of property which is also sold? What claim does a lender have on the borrower—does that claim extend beyond the borrower to the buyer of the borrower’s property? Can I put under lien stuff that I might buy in the future? Can property be stolen?

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witticisms at [email protected]